Helllo there Mike, I'm no expert on this topic, but I might give you some starters insight. If I get you right, you are not interested in writing Excel macro's (did you consider that as well ?) but a real stand alone application which communicates with Excel ? If so, then look for the techniques 'DDE' or 'Automation'. A good starting point would be installing your Excel again from the Office setup and include Visual Basic help on Excel. VB is commonly used for letting an application communicate with Excel and the likes. Also have a look at the developpers MSDN section at htpp://www.microsoft.com. Hope this helps a bit.. Arno van Loenen
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Are you new to CodeProject?Hello World... Well, Hello Code Project might be more appropriate ;) The timing of this message couldn't be better. I just discovered Code Project by hitting on it using a search engine trying to find something completely different ;). I already posted two small replies and decided that instead of going around anonymous (it has its advantages though), I'd sign on and put my name where my text is. Browsing through some of the articles already gave me some nice insights into topics of my personal interest. Maybe one glorious day I will post one of my own. The topics of interest for me are: 3D programming, C++, C, MFC, COM, Win32 Shell programming, GUI design and probably some other topics I dont think of right now. A short biography: I am currently employed by Philips as an IT engineer. I received my MSc. in Electrotechnical and IT engineering at the Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Well, that about sums it up I think... Hopefully we will cross paths soon ! Arno van Loenen